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The Congolese army and Tutsi rebels have been involved in some of the worst clashes for a week despite rebel leader Laurent Nkunda telling a United Nations envoy that he supports peace in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN said Monday.
"Yesterday we had a lot of clashes in Riwindi (125 kilometres north of Goma, the...
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When Zafar Wahid, a project manager with Liberty Life insurance company, was relieved of his car at gunpoint in Johannesburg recently, he knew exactly where to go to get a knock-down replacement.
On an unseasonably cold summer's evening, Wahid, still wearing his work trousers and tie, walks past a string of cars in Burchmore's...
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen left no room for a Thai delegation to doubt his resolve after a meeting with him Monday - Thai troops must retreat, or prepare to fight.
"The situation at the Eagle Terrace area is hot," he said, referring to a border area Thai troops reportedly moved into even as bilateral talks began in the...
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While markets in the United States, Europe and Asia were receiving their worst battering in decades last week, Africa's economy, which has been relatively unscathed by the global financial meltdown, came in for some rare praise.
British liberal weekly, the Economist, which once described Africa as "the hopeless continent,"...
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Aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has shut down two offices in eastern Chad and evacuated its staff after armed robberies, the charity said Thursday.
MSF said that all activities in Ade and Goz Beida had been suspended indefinitely, leaving 70,000 people without access to health services.
"The fact that MSF is being...
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Most of the around 1 million people that succumb to malaria annually still have no access to effective testing and drugs, international medical non-governmental organization, Doctors without Borders (Medecins sans Frontieres MSF), said Tuesday.
"Although effective tools exist to identify and treat malaria - one of the main...
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The civil rights group Human Rights Watch sharply criticised Wednesday the use of
special courts in the Sudan, saying they were a 'charade' and fell
short of 'even minimal fair trial standards.' In a statement,
HRW called attention to the special courts which were set up to combat
rebels, and which at the end of July sentenced 30...
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 Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged
Kenyan rival leaders to put aside their divergences and end the bloody conflict.
The Ghanaian diplomat outlined that the fierce conflict has evolved beyond
initial protests and threatens to grip other parts of the African country.
Annan visited the conflict-ridden Rift...
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 The opposition in Kenya on Friday demanded that President Mwai Kibaki
step down after his controversial election victory and prepare the path
for new elections within three months, an opposition official said as
some protests continued.
According to the secretary-general of the Orange Democracy Movement
(ODM), Anyang Nyongo, the...
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 The new head of South Africa's ruling African National Congress Jacob
Zuma has been charged with corruption, racketeering, fraud and money
laundering, his lawyer said Friday.
Michael Hulley confirmed Zuma, 65, had received an indictment from
the National Prosecuting Authority to stand trial in August 2008,
according to the SABC....
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 Embattled South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday used a speech
to members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) meeting to
elect a new leader to lash out at corruption in party ranks.
Mbeki is attempting to remain on as president of the party but is
expected to be routed by party deputy Jacob Zuma. Zuma's victory...
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 The mood was ebullient Saturday among supporters of the man tipped to
oust Thabo Mbeki as leader of South Africa's ruling African National
Congress (ANC), as party members poured into the northern city of
Polokwane to pick their president for the next five years.
Cattle herders leaning on their sticks watched as dozens of...
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 Egyptian police operated numerous arrests after sectarian clashes between Christians and Muslims near Cairo lead to the injuring of dozens and the arson of stores and houses.The violence erupted after a rumor that Christians are holding unauthorized prayer services emerged and numerous Muslims attacked Christian people in the Bamha...
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Sydney on Tuesday joined London, Singapore and other big cities in charging motorists for driving into the central business district (CBD) at peak times.
But the New South Wales state government is denying that a toll levied on cars coming over the famous Harbour Bridge into the city that varies according to the time of day is a...
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 A New
Zealand teenager was convicted on Tuesday
due to his major role in a global cyber crime ring that managed to infect
nearly 1.3 million computers worldwide and caused $20 million in losses. The
investigation was launched after an assault involving 50,000 computers crashed
the server at the University of Pennsylvania in the...
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 Children living with adult smokers stand more chances to have a problem called food insecurity than those who live with non-smokers, a new study suggests. Food insecurity, a term developed in the 1990’s, describes the incapability to access enough food in a socially acceptable way for every day of the year. It is associated with health...
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Ailing Democratic fundraiser Fred Baron obtained an experimental cancer
drug, according to an e-mail sent by his son on Thursday.
As Andrew Baron wrote in the e-mail, his father was given the experimental cancer-fighting
drug called Tysabri, hoping that it would overturn physicians’ opinion, who categorize
a case of multiple...
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 According to the Associated Press, over 120 workers at a Los Angeles hospital read without permission celebrities' medical records and other personal information between January 2004 and June 2006.Ignoring the messages saying that unauthorized access to medical records would lead to sanctions and disciplinary measures taken by UCLA, 127...
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A coalition of human-rights and AIDS activists on Monday demanded the release of two AIDS experts detained in Iran.
The men, brothers Arash and Kamiar Alaei, were detained by Iranian
security forces in late June, without being charged. Their whereabouts
remain unknown, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on the sidelines of the
XVII...
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Religion and sexuality make
strange bedfellows. No society has ever existed without them, but when
it comes to HIV and AIDS, the two social constructs coexist
uncomfortably. Religion often acts as a barrier to HIV
prevention work, AIDS activists, public health experts and sociologists
attending the XVII International AIDS...
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 The U.S. House of Representatives suspended on Tuesday an
intended decrease in the payments of Medicare physicians by instead reducing
payments to private health insurers.
The House approved legislation, on a 355 to 59 vote. It
involves a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals for
approximately 18...
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 Microsoft Corporation and Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed care
organization in the United
States, have united powers to create a
special pilot program according to which patients can have a control upon their
health records.
This is not the only provider of such patient information exchange
program. Revolution Health...
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Health officials fear that many of the backyard pools in Los
Angeles County will turn into perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes (among
which the dreaded West Nile virus) if they go unmaintained. That's why health
officials are trying to obtain access to many foreclosed pool properties and
drop in their secret weapon, the Gambusia...
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 Google began providing personal health records to the public
on Monday, after more than a year of work on the project.
By means of the site google.com/health, patients can upload
medical records from organizations, enter their own data and search for
information on their health condition.
Google's partners include Walgreen...
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 More than 200 million children under age 5 do not receive basic health care in case of illness. Poor children are visibly more exposed to sickening and death risk than the well-off ones.
About 10 million of these die annually, having treatable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia as a cause, according to the ninth annual State of the...
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 After 14 hours of surgery, a 15-year-old girl is finally
free from the Schwannoma tumor that had consumed the lower half of her face.
Lai Thi Dao was affected by an extremely rare type of tumor and she was in
danger of suffocating.
Surgeons at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical
Center removed the tumor and restored...
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 A month after 13 UCLA employees read without permission
Britney Spears’ medical files and were fired, another employee tried to see
medical files of Farrah Fawcett, which were supposed to be confidential. He had
no authorization to see those files. As a result, he was fired.
Officer Carole A. Klove, the hospital’s...
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 Two U.S. citizens will beam their ballots down from the International Space Station (ISS) as they fly 354 km above Earth. NASA astronauts Michael Fincke and Gregory Chamitoff will vote from space thanks to a Texas state law that ensures their ballots can be counted, even from space. All U.S. astronauts who were in space have voted from...
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 Just a few days after NASA’s
Atlantis space shuttle returned home after a historic mission, another space
event has just taken place. This time it was Japan
and not the United States of
America that organized the recent space
event.
So, Japan
has just successfully launched an experimental satellite that should be
providing...
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 A team of scientists from the Department of Anthropology, University of Florida,
have developed a new theory concerning the colonization model for the first
people who colonized the Americas.
The study was published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE on 13 February and
puts forward a three-stage colonization theory, different from...
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 A team of researchers warned
recently that Lake Mead might become pure history by 2021 because of climate
changes and a continual increase in the demand for Colorado
River’s water. If Lake Mead got
drain by 2021, it would trigger a severe water shortage across the entire
region.
Scientists at San
Diego’s Scripps Institution...
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 After the strong Pacific storm that left around 20 percent of the California residents in the dark in the true sense of the meaning and which is believed to be only the first one in a series that was forecast to hit California this weekend.More than 1.300.000 electricity users lost power since Friday morning, as the storm damaged 40...
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 Former US vice president Al Gore and Rajendra Puchauri, chair of the UN
climate panel, received standing ovations Monday when they were awarded
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Ole Danbolt Mjos said Gore, 59,
and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had helped "lay the
foundations for...
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 23andMe, Inc., a privately-held personal genetics company has announced the launch of an online service that would allow people to understand their own genetic information through DNA analysis technologies and web-based interactive tools, on Monday.The Personal Genome Service enables people to obtain information about their ancestry and...
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 The scientists from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have recently warned that the Arctic ice
cap is melting down even faster than the scientists have ever expected. Their
prediction has said that by 2050 the summer sea ice of Alaska’s north coast is very likely to
shrink to almost half the area it covered back in...
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 A scientist and former U.S. Army man was named a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax deadly attack. He was later cleared of all charges, but a federal judge wanted to make public the court records which have been sealed for so many years. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth released the information for The New York Times...
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A top US envoy in Taiwan Wednesday urged the island to fully allow imports of US beef products if the two sides are to further increase their trade relationship.
"Resuming imports of all US beef and beef products would further invigorate this important trading relationship," said Stephen Young, director of American Institute...
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Obama fever may have swept the world, following the Democratic presidential candidate's historic election victory Tuesday. Now millions of computer users are under threat from an Obama virus, network security companies said Friday.
Authors of the virus are hoping to benefit from the huge interest in US president-elect Barack Obama,...
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US cable channel HBO has bought the rights to a documentary about president-elect Barack Obama, produced by Oscar- nominated actor Edward Norton, the Hollywood Reporter said Friday.
A crew for Norton's Class 5 Films has been following the African- American politician since early 2006 - even before he announced his intention to run...
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Unemployment in the United States rose to 6.5 per cent in October, after another 240,000 jobs were lost in a worsening sign for the economy, the US Labour Department reported Friday.
The jobless rate jumped from 6.1 per cent in the previous two months, and marked an increase of 1.7 per cent, or 2.8 million fewer jobs, over the last...
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The International Monetary Fund drastically cut its global economic forecasts on Thursday in the face of a growing credit crisis, predicting a recession in the United States and the world in 2009.
In an update of its World Economic Outlook from October, the IMF said global growth would slow to 2.2 per cent in 2009, down from the...
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The US economy contracted by 0.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, the sharpest decline in seven years amid a global financial crisis that has blocked credit access and severely depressed consumer spending, the US government said Thursday.
The initial estimate by the Bureau of Economic Analysis puts the US on track for a...
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The US economy contracted by 0.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, the sharpest decline in seven years amid a global financial crisis that has blocked credit access and severely depressed consumer spending, the US government said Thursday.
The initial estimate by the Bureau of Economic Analysis suggests the world's largest...
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The US economy contracted by 0.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2008, the sharpest decline in seven years amid a global financial crisis that has blocked credit access and severely depressed spending, the US government said Thursday.
The government's initial estimate puts the US on track for a recession in the second half of the...
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Google has reached a 125-million-dollar settlement of a class action lawsuit by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, which will drastically expand the availability of digitized books over the internet, the groups announced Tuesday.
The deal sets aside 45 million dollars for payment to authors and publishers...
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The options for survival for US automotive giants General Motors and Chrysler are limited to bankruptcy protection, merger or a receipt of aid from the US government, the Wall Street Journal said Monday.
Citing sources inside GM and Chrysler, the respected financial daily said the two companies which are currently in merger...
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The world is witnessing a nuclear power renaissance at a time when demands for fossil fuel-based energy and its prices have increased, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Monday.
But the expected increase in civilian nuclear power plants is accompanied by the risk of mounting nuclear material being converted into...
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Kenyan police have set up a 24-hour guard outside the home of US presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother after thieves targeted her home, reports said Friday.
Obama's grandmother Sarah, 86, said burglars broke in through her kitchen door in the western Kenyan village of Kogelo and attempted to steal a solar panel from her...
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 A charter bus that was running off a highway near north of Dallas crashed onto one side on a roadway below. 12 people were killed on Friday at about 12:45 a.m. CT (1:45 a.m. EDT) as the bus rolled over and endangered the life of nearly fifty-five people who were inside it.The bus crashed about 60 miles north of Dallas, nearly half a mile...
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The former driver for Osama bin Laden pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges on Monday as the first trial under US President George W Bush's controversial military commissions got under way in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national, has been charged with conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism and...
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday that the Bush
administration will do everything to ensure the government tools to fight terrorism
before the next president takes office.
Mukasey added that changes for FBI agents will be clear and
consistent for conducting investigations “while maintaining vital civil
liberties...
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Yesterday, a 12-years-old girl disappeared after being
dropped off by two of her family members at a convenience store.
Brooke Bennett, resident of
Braintree, Massachusetts, told her relatives she would meet a friend of hers in
order to pay a visit to an ill relative of the friend in Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center, in Lebanon,...
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 Yesterday, a 12-years-old girl disappeared after being
dropped off by two of her family members at a convenience store.
Brooke Bennett, resident of
Braintree, Vermont, told her relatives she would meet a friend of hers in
order to pay a visit to an ill relative of the friend in Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H.,...
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 Los Angeles – As funny as it seems, a judge who presided
over a high-profile US
obscenity trial was discovered to keep on a publicly accessible website
maintained by himself photos that are far away from being religious.
The story regarding the pornographic content of the site will further
raise conflict-of-interest issues for the...
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 A federal appeals court judge had posted
sexual material on his Web site while he was preparing to preside over an
obscenity trial in Los Angeles
and then he blocked public access to the site after being interviewed about it Tuesday
evening.
Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the US Court
of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, acknowledged...
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 In his speech at the opening of a UN summit
in Rome, UN
Chief Ban Ki-Moon called for a drastic increase in the food production to meet
demand. He has urged nations to seize an “historic opportunity to revitalise
agriculture” as a measure to tackle the food crisis.
“Nothing is more degrading than hunger,
especially when it is...
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 Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle has signed the
Great Lakes Water Compact into law Tuesday, a multistate agreement designed to
protect and restrict access to nearly 20 percent of the world's supply of fresh
water. Wisconsin is the fifth state to approve
the interstate compact aimed at protecting the Great Lakes.
He signed the agreement...
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 Former US President Bill Clinton held a 35-minute
speech Thursday at Butler Traditional
High School in Louisville,
in which he discussed about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s position if she
became the next US
President. Another point of the speech was to advise people to ignore the
media and the ones who sustain that Hillary would...
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Arizona authorities on
Sunday found 53 illegal immigrants in a Phoenix
home being held against their will by suspected smugglers demanding more money,
the Associated Press reports. The group of immigrants included three women, two
13-year-old girls and a mentally disabled man. The rest were man, Department of
Public Safety spokesman...
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 Jose Padilla, a US citizen in custody since 2002 for involvement in a
terrorist cell, was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months in
prison, the US Justice Department said.
Padilla, 37, who was held as an "enemy combatant" for more than
three years in a military prison without access to a lawyer, was found
guilty...
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 Lawyers for prisoners in the war on terrorism appeared before the US
Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking the right for their clients to
challenge their detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in the federal court
system.
The cases, Boumediene versus Bush and al-Odah versus the United
States, marked the third time in as many years...
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 After the last tweaks were taken care of last night, the interstate highway 355 opened tday to more than 50,000 vehicles.The $730 million, 12.5-mile toll road extension snakes its way from Interstate Highway 55 in Bolingbrook to Interstate Highway 80 in New Lenox. It has been named the Veterans Memorial Tollway.Planners say it cements...
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 The case in which, 1,500,000 Amerindians were supposedly killed
by Ottoman Turks has finally reached a turning point Wednesday as the US House
committee called on president Bush to recognize if the killings were or were
not an act of genocide.
A divided House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the
measure despite back and forth...
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 After praising to he world about a bridge project of 400
million dollars worth, connecting Ketchikan, population 7,500, and nearby Gravina Island, where the
town’s airstrip is located, the State of Alaska has officially renounced the
plan altogether.
The bridge had been nicknamed as the “bridge to nowhere”
because of its...
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Foley…Ring a bell? Mark Foley…that’s right, last September,
congressman, accused of Internet sex with a male high school student. Well not
even after a year authorities couldn’t find anything to indict him.
Apparently the conversations between the two couldn’t
demonstrate that they were involved in any kind of relationship.
Even...
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 Mexican rescue teams managed to dig out 14 bodies from under piles of mud and rocks that crushed a bus in the country’s central region, officials informed Thursday.A landslide covered a bus carrying between 45 and 60 people in a remote area near the small town of Eloxochitlan, Puebla. The state is located in the center east of the...
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 United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Thursday
that Washington is ready to
change the policy with Iran,
if Tehran agrees to stop its
long-disputed nuclear program.
“I repeat again, if Iran
is prepared to take that course, then we are prepared to change 27 years of
course. The Middle East is a place where...
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 After several international false starts and domestic delays, the BlackBerry Bold has premiered at AT&T stores and online in the US, with an offer of free Wi-Fi at some AT&T hotspots nationwide when accompanied with an unlimited data plan. The BlackBerry Bold has a Quad-Band GSM, a GPS, Bluetooth, a 2 Megapixel camera with 3 x...
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 A group of security researchers have found a serious flaw in the Android software from Google. This comes just after a few days from T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone launch on Wednesday. One of the researchers, Charles A. Miller, notified Google about the flaw. Furthermore, he announced the error publicly in order to show cell phone users that...
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 Samsung announced on Tuesday its new partnership with two Internet multimedia companies, in order to incorporate audio/video streaming services into the company’s latest Blu-ray disc players. The agreements were signed with the online video disc rental company Netflix and the music recommendation and Internet radio service Pandora. Both...
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T-Mobile began shipping the G1 Android today, the first
production Android-based device and the carrier’s first full-touchscreen phone
set to battle with iPhone. The product went on sale Tuesday evening in San Francisco, ahead of the start of sales across the U.S. The G1 was
made by T-Mobile in collaboration with Google and...
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 On October 22, Google and T-Mobile will launch the G1,
the first hand-held computer that’s in the same class as Apple’s iPhone. You
can buy the gadget for $180 with a two year contract and that’s a reasonable
price, cheaper than Apple’s offer. Google wants to use the mobile phone in
order to accelerate the use and sophistication of...
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 The “Kickstart” BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 was officially
released for $149.99 in black color after $150 instant discount and $50 mail-in
rebate (the full price is $349.99). The device is the first one to use the flip
phone form factor, a unique design for RIM. It has support for T-Mobile’s UMA
HotSpot service via WiFi, a 2.0...
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 On Thursday, information regarding the recently-released Samsung
Instinct smartphone was made public. Although the device was made available to
Sprint customers on June 19 and to everyone else the following day, reports of shortages
in certain stores are already being announced.
About one week ago, Sprint Nextel Corp. officials set...
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 On Wednesday, Sprint Nextel Corp. officials announced that the new touch-screen smartphone, the Samsung Instinct, will be made available for the price of $129.99. The official launch is set for Friday, June 20. The smartphone will probably be one of the iPhone’s most powerful competitors. The device has a 3-inch display, QWERTY keypad...
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 The race to come up with the most attractive smartphone is on and has been for quite some time now. Although recently the spotlight has mainly been on Apple’s new 3G iPhone, there are a lot of things going on in the background. One of the iPhone’s most powerful competitors will probably be Samsung’s Instinct, scheduled for release on...
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 On Thursday, Palm Inc officials announced that the company is well on its way to shipping two million Centro smartphone units. The phone has been doing quite well since its debut with Sprint and AT&T. In a move that will surely significantly increase sales, Brodie Keast, Palm senior vice president of marketing, said the smartphone...
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 EBay-owned Skype has finally managed to release a beta version of its VoIP client, covering 50 different models of mobile phones from Motorola , Nokia , Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. The beta version’s objective is to gather consumer feedback that will eventually lead to product improvement. The service will only be made available inside...
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